08/07/2021 Erik Kusch
3Expectations & Mentality
SalGo-Team –Statistical Education09/09/2021
Disregard for statistics among students:
“It is no fun”
“R does not like me”
“I will not need statistics”
“I do not want to do research with a lot of statistics”
Disconnected from the reality of academia
Disregard among colleagues:
“We have always done our stats in Excel. I do not see any reason to change that.”
“Correlation is the same as causation as long as the hypothesis tested is simple.”
Mentality ranging from calcified to incorrect
Underappreciation for Biostatistics